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ex-Chinese motor torpedo boat

ex-Chinese MTB

Names

1st (ex-KUAI1 or 2)

Builders

Thornycroft, Hampton, UK

Commissioned

1935 / 1939

Losses

none

Transfers

none

Discarding

1944

 

Displacement normal, t

14

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

16.8

Breadth, m

3.40

Draught, m

1.00

No of shafts

2

Machinery

petrol engines

Power, h. p.

1500

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

petrol

Endurance, nm(kts) 200(40)

Armament

2 x 1 - 7.7/80, 2 - 450 TT

Complement

5

Ship project history: Chinese MTB of CMB-55 design, fell into Japanese hands at Canton in 1938. Commissioned in 1939 as experimental MTB (number unknown).

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

ex-Chinese MTB

 

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